''Uroteuthis bartschi'', also known as Bartsch's squid, is a species of

squid True squid are molluscs with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the superorder Decapodiformes, though many other molluscs within the broader Neocoleoidea are also called squid despite not strictly fitting t ...

growing to a known

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length of 20 cm. It is the type species of the genus ''

Uroteuthis ''Uroteuthis'' is a genus of 14 species of common inshore squids of the Indo-West Pacific and is further subdivided into 3 subgenera. The members of the genus ''Uroteuthis'' are the only squids of the family Loliginidae that possess photophores ...

''.

References

External links

Tree of Life web project: ''Uroteuthis''
Squid Molluscs described in 1945 {{squid-stub